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My practice constantly calls into question how a photograph functions subjectively versus objectively and vice versa. Whether taking or looking at family snapshots, I often recall distinct memories or experiences. But I also wonder, what about other people? What do they see looking at the same photo? So how can you trust your memory, thinking you remember a moment or an event, I approach family pictures not with nostalgia, but with questions about how come I do not remember, or how I know I remember such objects in the photographs. For me, photography becomes a visual information exchange of images that I collect and trade. What I do is capture pictorial fragments that then allow me to ask, “This is a portion of my experience, but what about yours?” that hopefully prompts any type of conversation that becomes photo books. Photography is sort of a visual information exchange of images which I collect and trade. So it relates to and becomes language but as if pictures were words except not to create text or suggest narrative. What I do is capture fragments which then allows me to ask “This is a portion of my experience, but what about yours?” that hopefully prompts any type of conversation.

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Born in Seoul, South Korea, YoungSun Choi is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Chicago who utilizes photography, bookmaking, sculpture, and interactive art to explore how visual culture influences memory, which affects the way people recall their own experiences by observing and interacting with her images. She uses Korean rice paper (hanji) to stay connected to her culture and to show the mixture of language nuance through bleeding out the image to the other side. She is currently an adjunct faculty at DePaul University teaching photography.
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